Beyond "cosmos laundromat": blender's open source studio pipeline

Abstract

For "Cosmos Laundromat" - CAF 2016 Jury Award winner - the Blender team, headed by CG pioneer and producer Ton Roosendaal, developed and used a complete open source creation pipeline. The team released several other shorts since then, including a 360-degrees VR experience and a pitch for the feature animation film "Agent 327". Developing and sharing open source technologies is a great challenge, and leads to great benefits for the small and medium animation studios.